Tutor information
Jonathan Darnborough
Jonathan Darnborough is Director of Studies in Music and Departmental Lecturer in Music at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. He is a composer and pianist and has worked in continuing education throughout his career. He was a prize-winner in the 1992 Franco-Italian Piano Competition in Paris and he has performed throughout Britain, as well as in Europe, the USA and Indonesia.
Courses
The aim of musical analysis is to understand how music exerts such a powerful effect on us. This course introduces some of the main approaches as we attempt to bridge the gap between our intuitions about music and our intellectual knowledge of it.
Explore the piano repertoire in a lively mixture of talks and workshops, in which all students will have regular opportunities to play. We will focus on technique, but workshop sessions will also cover interpretation. Open to players of all levels.
Explore the piano repertoire in a lively mixture of talks and workshops, with all students having regular opportunities to play. This term focusses on interpretation but technical issues will be discussed in the workshops. Open to players of all levels.
From Cristofori’s revolutionary idea of creating a keyboard instrument with hammers, the piano has become a central element in music making. This course explores the evolution of the instrument and its repertoire over three centuries.
This course will start with Verdi's first great success, Nabucco, and then chart his development through the lyrical triumphs of his middle period, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata, to the great Shakespearean masterpieces of his final years.
Baroque music, with its combination of expressiveness and virtuosity, is immensely popular - but not always well understood. This course aims to provide insight into the work of, among others, Corelli, Vivaldi, Bach and Handel.